I just love the first days and weeks of every year. To start, Bogotá, Colombia, my hometown, has the lowest traffic levels of all the year, so it’s a great time to visit the city and use your car. Also, most of our clients and business partners at our consulting …
Read More »Starting 2015 with economies affected by the price drop of petroleum
This is the first post I am writing for 2015 -that is actually just starting- after a period in which I wasn’t able to write due to my workload. First of all I want to apologize for not writing during this period but I hope I can be able to …
Read More »Steps for Becoming an Entrepreneur 8: Evaluate
For the eight and last article of this series about how to be successful as an Entrepreneur, I will talk about a very important subject that many times is left behind, because we don’t considerate it important or because we just don’t have the time. I’m talking about the final …
Read More »Is Internet a subject of the manager or the technology department?
The question that is the title of this post is a subject that many entrepreneurs and businessmen face on their companies. Many times the easier answer is “the cobbler should stick to his last”. In this way managers think that Internet – and in general all the technologies- is a …
Read More »Steps for Becoming an Entrepreneur 7: Act, Risk and Modify
For this penultimate article of this series, where I share some of the most important steps for becoming an entrepreneur, I introduce 3 elements. These elements are complementary and should be taken seriously by everyone. You will probably see how these elements are closely related, not only among each other, …
Read More »Are you prepared for the social pressure of the entrepreneurship?
Even though the entrepreneurship process brings a ton of satisfactions, it is a decision that will bring many pressures we will have to face. On one hand we will have to face difficult times in order to obtain economical resources to start our business, sell our products or services, define …
Read More »Steps for Becoming an Entrepreneur 6: Taking the Plunge
For the previous 5 entries of this series about the steps needed to become an entrepreneur, we’ve analyzed different steps required to become a successful entrepreneur. For instance, in the third step we talked about deciding to begin this road. This step might look similar to the current step, taking …
Read More »Mixing personal and professional life, a new characteristic of the XXI century employee
Many habits of employees have changed on the last years. Before a worker that was hired in a company could work in that same place over years even until he retired. In the case in which his first work was not the last one, he will try to remain there …
Read More »Steps for Becoming an Entrepreneur 5: Planning
For today’s post on the steps need to become an entrepreneur, we will be talking about the planning and preparation required to be successful. We have to become the best entrepreneurs out there and one of the aspects to accomplish this, is following best practices and minimizing risk. Planning ahead …
Read More »Steps for Becoming an Entrepreneur 4: Full-time or Part-time Entrepreneur?
In the third installment on this series about the steps that are needed to become an entrepreneur, I talked about taking the decision of starting the project. In this article, I introduced the idea of working full-time or part-time on the project, as both are viable scenarios. In the current …
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